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[in her book illustrations],[carefully coordinating them with her narratives],

subject: Beatrix Potterverb: capitalized verb-ing modifer: coordinating - modifies prepositional phrase [in her book illustrations] - i think that wrong. also "them" is wrong - refers to illustrations. I think it should refer to book.

(B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potterverb-ing modifer: coordinating - modifies prepositional phrase [in her book illustrations] - i think that wrong.

(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter subordinate clause "which she carefully coordinated with her narratives"here "which"-> refers to "book"subject: Beatrix Potterverb: capitalized correct

(D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrationsVerb-ed modifer : "Carefully coordinated with her narratives" is modifying subject "Beatrix Potter" which is wrong.

(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and Beatrix Potter carefully coordinated them with her narratives. "them" - refers to ??? andcapitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.

Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.

(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, (B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter (D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and

I think its E. Correct modifier and past verbs for parallelism'coordinated' and 'capitalized'

Even C resolved parallelism and avoids the ambiguous use of "them" in the sentence. Options A,B and E use "them" which is wrong. Options D indicates that Potter was coordinated not her bookAlso, in C "which" modifies illustrations correctly

Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.

(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, <-- tense error with coordinating(B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter <-- again tense error with coordinating also sounds awkward(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter <-- OA(D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations <-- "Carefully coordinated with her narratives" is fine, but what follows this clause should be "her book illustrations". Think about this... It is her book illustrations that are carefully coordinated with her narratives, not Beatrix Porter herself!(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and <-- addition of "them" makes sentence awkward

Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.

(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, (B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter (D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and

The last sentence starts with the verb "capitalized on her..." Hence it should be preceded by the author, Beatrix Porter.

This reduces us to 2 options, B and C. "carefully coordinating [color=#ed1c24]them" is undecisive whether it is referring to the books or to the illustrations in the book. (improper pronoun referencing). B is wrong,

Does any1 observe a parallelism in the sentence. How is it not satified in D?

Hi subhojyoti.

There are two problems with D:

D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.

1) "carefully coordinated.." should modify "book illustrations". However, there is "Beatrix Potter" in the middle, the Verb-ed modifier seems modify "Beatrix Potter". => The sentence is fragmented.

2) If you read carefully, you see there is NO comma after "in her book illustrations" ==> The sentence is quite not grammatical.: ....Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations capitalized..................

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Answer is C. Carefully co-ordinated with her narratives should modify Illustrations and not Beatrix Potter. So C is worded appropriately where Illustrations is modified. Also the use of which links the two elements.

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